Speaker 1: Thank you, John. It is eight oh five here Kentucky,
Speaker 1: Anda's Morning News with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas and as we get our final hour started,
Speaker 1: I can't fight the feeling here that I need to
Speaker 1: clarify that I'm not in support of somebody making fun
Speaker 1: and making jokes about someone who just lost their mother recently,
Speaker 1: who died. So I don't, I don't condone that, and
Speaker 1: I hope and I believe that I did convey that
Speaker 1: in our recent conversation there as Scott gave us the
Speaker 1: latest update on sports. But for those who missed it,
Speaker 1: there's a major League Baseball fan who has been banned
Speaker 1: for life because he was accused and I guess admitted
Speaker 1: maybe to heckling a picture and he made a reference
Speaker 1: to the picture's mother and that picture's I mean, the
Speaker 1: picture was emotional, just downright beside himself because clearly what
Speaker 1: was said was very hurtful, so much so that he
Speaker 1: couldn't control his emotions and he became a story. And
Speaker 1: hear me out, I'm not, I don't, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't see how many get anything out of heckling players
Speaker 1: at games. I'm not somebody that is approved to it
Speaker 1: that thinks it's completely out of line. I just can't relate,
Speaker 1: like I've never been in a game in any way
Speaker 1: and had the urge, even though clearly when you're at
Speaker 1: a game and there's it's a team you really care about,
Speaker 1: You've made that emotional investment to a team. Despite that,
Speaker 1: I've never had the urge to just yell something at anybody, player, coach, mascot, anything.
Speaker 1: Just it's not who I am. And I don't say
Speaker 1: that deack like I'm better than anybody who does. It's
Speaker 1: just not my personality. So I just don't do it
Speaker 1: because it's not me. But I also am not surprised
Speaker 1: when you hear it at games, and I do think
Speaker 1: if you pay money to go to a professional game
Speaker 1: and these guys are making millions, they should just understand
Speaker 1: that there's going to be a level of the opposing
Speaker 1: fans ribbon you've giving you a hard time. What it
Speaker 1: all comes down to is the line, the line that
Speaker 1: you can and can't cross. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's any definitive line that gives us the exacts as
Speaker 1: far as what is allowed and what is not and
Speaker 1: what's going to get your band for a lot like
Speaker 1: this this guy, But John, are you with me at
Speaker 1: least that it would be a totally different world of
Speaker 1: scenarios here if he's just making a your mama joke,
Speaker 1: which again those are lame, childish and probably not funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's different than bringing up something that you know
Speaker 1: is I mean, that's cruel.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, whether you're joking about you know, just
Speaker 2: regular everything things or not, when you bring up somebody's
Speaker 2: deceased relative mom or not, it's definitely crossing on the
Speaker 2: You probably shouldn't.
Speaker 1: But if he did not put it this way, if
Speaker 1: this fan who's been banned for life came out and
Speaker 1: said I was just having fun, probably shouldn't have said
Speaker 1: anything regardless, But I am so sorry I hadn't. And
Speaker 1: again it's a reminder why you shouldn't make those kind
Speaker 1: of jokes, because you really never know somebody's situation. But
Speaker 1: if that was the excuse, I wouldn't say, well, okay,
Speaker 1: nothing wrong here, nothing to see. Let's reinstate his ability
Speaker 1: to go to games. But I would believe him, like
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's plausible in a major way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, genuine apologies, especially if somebody sounds like they're very
Speaker 2: sorrowful about what they did. I think they're definitely worth
Speaker 2: forgiving him, Like.
Speaker 1: Your mom can throw better than that, Well, my mom's dead. Thanks,
Speaker 1: Like that's that's it. That's you probably feel like an
Speaker 1: awful human being after you say that and realize it.
Speaker 1: But that's different than saying, hey, buddy, oh where's your mom. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, she's dead. It sounded really cruel fit different.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if that's what if that, I
Speaker 1: feel awful just saying that, just to give you an example.
Speaker 1: But if that's what was said by the fan, then
Speaker 1: he deserves to be banned, and he deserves even worse.
Speaker 1: But anyways, speaking of sporting events, and I I'm going
Speaker 1: to be in attendance with many of you because I
Speaker 1: know this thing is sold out and it just speaks
Speaker 1: to how big of a deal the BA, the Savannah
Speaker 1: Banana's baseball experience has become so tonight a'ts slugger field.
Speaker 1: I'm going for Banana Ball, meaning it won't be the
Speaker 1: actual Savannah Banas, It's going to be a party animals.
Speaker 1: And I've be impossible to ignore and not be aware
Speaker 1: of just how much buzz this this thing has, if
Speaker 1: we can call it a thing, because they're selling out
Speaker 1: NFL stadiums. I remember Ember last year when the Savannah
Speaker 1: the Savannah Bananas came themselves, was at two or three nights,
Speaker 1: and I can't remember an event in Louisville where there
Speaker 1: were as many people just Hey, who's got tickets?
Speaker 2: I'll pay whatever?
Speaker 1: Anybody know, anybody, please please we There was such a
Speaker 1: high demand for it, and now again it's maybe not
Speaker 1: at the same level of demand. But even though the
Speaker 1: Bananas themselves aren't going to be here, it should still
Speaker 1: be a party. And I'm kind of looking forward to
Speaker 1: Thank you to one of the listeners who emailed me
Speaker 1: just a little breakdown here as far as how this
Speaker 1: difference from how this differs from traditional baseball, because again,
Speaker 1: I know how popular they are. I know they dance
Speaker 1: and perform, but you know, as far as the actual
Speaker 1: game itself, if you'd have told me that they don't
Speaker 1: actually like it's Harlem globe trotter kind of thing, I
Speaker 1: would have I would have believed you. But apparently it
Speaker 1: is a real game, which that I think that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. So it's fast paced, fan focused and entertaining,
Speaker 1: which Hey, that already makes baseball sound better to me.
Speaker 1: Fast paced, fan focused and entertaining. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I can't speak.
Speaker 2: He's that Kentucky crudd right, Yeah, from all this heat
Speaker 2: we're dealing.
Speaker 1: But all games are capped at two hours, so no
Speaker 1: new innings start after one hour and fifty minutes, so
Speaker 1: that I think that's a benefit. Also, I like the
Speaker 1: no walks on ball. Four of the batter sprints to
Speaker 1: first and the defense must throw the ball to every
Speaker 1: fielder before tagging the runner out. That creates, of course,
Speaker 1: some chaos and some excitement. So looking forward to it,
Speaker 1: I know my son moves. He's gonna be, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be fired up. He just found out last night we
Speaker 1: were going and he's he's ready. Although it's gonna be
Speaker 1: you know, he's gonna where's the man? I mean, these
Speaker 1: are the party animals, son, These are better these guys party.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to let him know we actually are
Speaker 1: seeing the preferable team in the whole mix here. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get an update on traffick and weather. Also, we've
Speaker 1: got Rory O'Neil set to join us coming up at
Speaker 1: eight thirty from NBC. News, we'll get the latest on
Speaker 1: this meeting that may be happening, maybe not between Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and iron next week. It sounds like there's no
Speaker 1: need for the meeting. But again we'll talk to Rory
Speaker 1: coming up at eight thirty. Right here our news ready
Speaker 1: to wait forty whs. It is eight seventeen Here Tucky
Speaker 1: in his morning news with Nick Coffee on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas. Let me get you set for the
Speaker 1: rest of our morning here. Coming up, we'll have your
Speaker 1: next update on traffic and weather in just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. Also, we'll talk with Scott Fitzgerald to get
Speaker 1: another update on sports, and then Rory on Nail of
Speaker 1: NBC News is going to join us. And then of
Speaker 1: course we'll finish strong here like we always do, and
Speaker 1: then Toty Vineddie will stop by and then Tony and
Speaker 1: Dewhite will take over, coming up at nine o'clock. So,
Speaker 1: something we discussed earlier for those that weren't with us
Speaker 1: is a new podcast that is launching. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: a lot of you have podcasts. Fatigue. Everybody's got a podcast,
Speaker 1: and I get it, but this one I think is
Speaker 1: interesting because of the story. So the guy who used
Speaker 1: to be Steve in Blues Clues, and I guess he
Speaker 1: still is that guy, but he is starting a podcast,
Speaker 1: and how it all came about, I just think is fascinating.
Speaker 1: His name is Steve Burns, and he was the host
Speaker 1: of Nickelodeon's Blues Clues from nineteen ninety six to two
Speaker 1: thousand and two, and he's going to be launching a
Speaker 1: podcast in the fall of this year that is going
Speaker 1: to target adults millennials who in fact were close to
Speaker 1: him via the TV show when they were young. And
Speaker 1: I don't believe that. In fact, it says here in
Speaker 1: the report from Variety that the podcast was inspired by
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one viral video where he for the
Speaker 1: twenty fifth anniversary of Blues Clues, did a video and
Speaker 1: he just appeared twenty five years later and he was
Speaker 1: the same guy. He actually looked the same too, which
Speaker 1: was wild, and he was talking to I guess the
Speaker 1: target was those same people, but of course now they're
Speaker 1: a lot older. We were right out of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: or maybe it was still going on. I don't even know.
Speaker 1: That's a very blurry area, but it was as if
Speaker 1: everybody who hadn't thought of him in Forever Got an Update,
Speaker 1: and he's talking about how life is hard right now
Speaker 1: and like what's going on in the world. And he's
Speaker 1: talking to you like he did when he was there
Speaker 1: for you when you were seven and eight years old,
Speaker 1: and he's talking now not about little kit things. He's
Speaker 1: talking about real life stuff. So the amount of people
Speaker 1: who couldn't help me get emotional about that and talk
Speaker 1: about how much they needed to hear from him, that
Speaker 1: that was a factor in this podcast kind of all
Speaker 1: coming together and I didn't realize it, but it makes
Speaker 1: total sense that our own John Alden, he was a
Speaker 1: Blues Clues kid, and he shared how he earlier went
Speaker 1: and watched the trailer for this new podcast and it
Speaker 1: was nostalgic, right yeah.
Speaker 2: And he was sitting in the big red chair kind
Speaker 2: of similar to the same way that whenever the Blues
Speaker 2: Clue Show would be on TV, and he kind of
Speaker 2: talks to you through the camera. It was kind of
Speaker 2: I don't want to say it was creepy, because it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It just brings you back to that time when you were,
Speaker 2: you know, six, seven years old, maybe even younger. And
Speaker 2: I'm interested to see when this is going to come out.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be in the fall. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Fall of twenty twenty. I definitely give it a shot.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's something I'll listen to all
Speaker 2: the time, but I'm definitely intrigued by it.
Speaker 1: Give it a shot. Let us know if it hits
Speaker 1: the way they are expecting, because I think if you're
Speaker 1: somebody who watched it and it was a part of
Speaker 1: your childhood, you made it. You had a connection with
Speaker 1: Steve from Blues Clues, and there's still probably a connection
Speaker 1: there to an extent. But if you give everybody the same,
Speaker 1: like if the aesthetics are very much similar to what
Speaker 1: you experienced as a child, the nostalgia will be unreal.
Speaker 1: And then if instead of discussing the things he discussed
Speaker 1: who seven and eight year olds, he's talking about real
Speaker 1: life and even his experience as a real human, not
Speaker 1: just the character on the show, I could see this
Speaker 1: being successful. I could be totally wrong, but I just
Speaker 1: I love how this story all all came together. And
Speaker 1: we had a listener earlier listening on the out radio
Speaker 1: app that used the talkback feature, and I think they
Speaker 1: made here a comparison that I can't relate to because
Speaker 1: I didn't watch this show with this man at the time,
Speaker 1: but like, it totally checks out for me.
Speaker 2: I think Steve from Blues Cluz is kind of like
Speaker 2: the same as maybe mister Rogers back in a different decade.
Speaker 1: So I mean, again just considering the character that what
Speaker 1: I mean, those two guys were the show that we're
Speaker 1: talking about, and you connected as a kid, and it
Speaker 1: just kind of felt like a companion that was like
Speaker 1: almost like a mentor.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't see a ton of mister Rogers. I
Speaker 2: neither based on what I know about him. It's a
Speaker 2: good comparison.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the movie that came out with Tom Hanks? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have you seen it? Yeah, I need to watch that.
Speaker 1: I haven't watched it, but I've heard good things about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So good stuff there. And also, if you want to
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Speaker 1: anything in general, just know you have that option with
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Speaker 1: the microphone that you'll see right there on your screen
Speaker 1: as you're listening, and it's that easy. All right, We've
Speaker 1: got another update of tracking and weather coming your way,
Speaker 1: and another update of sports as well. Right here on
Speaker 1: news RADIOA forty whis eight forty six here Kentucky in
Speaker 1: his morning news. We've got about fifteen minutes roughly left
Speaker 1: before we hand it off to Tony and Dwight. And
Speaker 1: I am a self proclaimed dork for the NFL Draft
Speaker 1: the NBA Draft, not just because I like sports, but
Speaker 1: because I just there's always things that come up on
Speaker 1: draft night that are entertaining that have nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the sport itself. And last night, Tony, there was
Speaker 1: a guy named Cedric Coward, who, by the way, has
Speaker 1: a really really interesting story, was a D three player
Speaker 1: and transferred to a low level D one, really took off,
Speaker 1: then transferred to I think it was Washington State, and
Speaker 1: then he becomes a lottery pick last night, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: But when he was when he was drafted, Malik Andrews,
Speaker 1: who works for ESPN, the Four Letter Network, she had
Speaker 1: a little bit of a goof, which is an honest mistake.
Speaker 1: But I just want to get your thoughts as a
Speaker 1: media mogul like yourself, somebody that's been in this broadcast
Speaker 1: entertainment business so long. It is an honest mistake, but
Speaker 1: the mistake could also be something that like, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: shock me if she gets in trouble, let's hear it.
Speaker 4: So the Portland Trailblazers select Colin Coward here this is
Speaker 4: a young man with the ultimate bet on yourself story.
Speaker 1: So she mentioned Colin Cowhard, who is not an NBA player,
Speaker 1: didn't get drafted. He is somebody who is in her business.
Speaker 1: He's a competitor, the direct competitor. He is the Fox,
Speaker 1: Fox and ESPN or competitors. I suppose. Obviously Fox is
Speaker 1: trying to be competitive. But if they've invested one guy
Speaker 1: in one guy to try to give them a little
Speaker 1: bit more balance between the two, it's they stole Cowherd
Speaker 1: and paid him in say amount of money and on
Speaker 1: draft note on ESPN, she's mentioning his name an accident,
Speaker 1: which again it seems harmless, but also like there's a
Speaker 1: million people watching.
Speaker 3: First of all, it sounds legit. It didn't sound like
Speaker 3: a bit right, So she I think if she'd have gone, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I think you know, because sometimes they do
Speaker 3: it on purpose, right. I always used to say when
Speaker 3: the other stations would mention us when we were on
Speaker 3: seven ninety was like, I don't care as long as
Speaker 3: they spell the name right. And you're mentioning my name
Speaker 3: and my station on your station. Good for you, Good
Speaker 3: for you. It doesn't matter what you say. Please say
Speaker 3: it again. I don't care what you're saying. Right, But
Speaker 3: that sounded your head first of all, that sounded legit.
Speaker 3: The second thing you got to look at is how
Speaker 3: much are these people sleep walking through these drafts. You
Speaker 3: can't possibly know everything about all these kids, can't possibly care,
Speaker 3: you can't possibly interested in it. So that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: So they're sleep walking through these you know your hour
Speaker 3: number whatever, And then you're thinking minus all of the
Speaker 3: prep that you did, so your brain is already broke
Speaker 3: and you're uninterested and tired and hungry, and yes, Colin
Speaker 3: Cowherd will pop out. By the way, you can listen
Speaker 3: to Colin Cowherd from twelve to three on Sports Talk
Speaker 3: seven nineteen.
Speaker 1: Here we Go. I think it was an honest mistake
Speaker 1: that her partners up there. It was Jay Billis and
Speaker 1: the other analyst was Kendrick Perkins. Maybe they were just
Speaker 1: checked out as well. But maybe this is a no
Speaker 1: no because I don't hear this very often. I think,
Speaker 1: in fact, I believe I was taught to do this.
Speaker 1: I just don't do it. But if you do have
Speaker 1: a slip up or a goof like that, just move
Speaker 1: along as its exactly happened. But I feel like it
Speaker 1: would have been a little bit I just if I
Speaker 1: was Kendrick Perkins, I would think, you know, I would
Speaker 1: make a slight joke about it and then move on
Speaker 1: to at least acknowledge it. But apparently you're not supposed
Speaker 1: to do that.
Speaker 3: I would have made fun of Colin Cowherd's basketball acumen
Speaker 3: and said, oh, well, he got he wishes he got
Speaker 3: drafted to the to the older thirty five Catholic League
Speaker 3: may joke.
Speaker 1: About like the Portland Travelers are just having like a yes,
Speaker 1: this is this is the make a wish draft picked
Speaker 1: honor somebody who could never be sure.
Speaker 3: White guys they can't shoot usually don't get uh, don't
Speaker 3: get drafted in the first round. Uh. But you know
Speaker 3: the first round of the NBA. I used to watch
Speaker 3: it too. The NFL draft is different because every single
Speaker 3: one of those players are so ready. Now they used
Speaker 3: to have to sit and get better and then play.
Speaker 3: They they will start on their teams as rookies that
Speaker 3: the first round is they make impacts on their.
Speaker 1: Team and the NFL just dominates everything everything. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: NFL draft is during the NBA playoffs, Yeah, the beginning
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, and so you got it and Derby
Speaker 1: all around the same time.
Speaker 3: I remember a couple of years ago they were talking
Speaker 3: about how NFL draft has just taken off. It beat
Speaker 3: a Lebron playoff and when he was in Cleveland or something,
Speaker 3: and it beat it, like doubled it or tripled it.
Speaker 3: The ratings for the draft over an NBA playoff and
Speaker 3: then and it just tells you how powerful the NFL.
Speaker 1: When the NFL gives us the schedule, it's a bigger
Speaker 1: storyline talking point nationally in sports than almost anything any
Speaker 1: other major sport does. That that to me has always
Speaker 1: been the real Oh my god, the NBA is not
Speaker 1: only dominating, it's that there's there's no competition.
Speaker 3: And to this guy, this kid's point to where he
Speaker 3: went to, you know, whatever Division II, blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: what worked his way up, That will tell you how
Speaker 3: lame the basketball rankings are. Like when they come out
Speaker 3: of high school or AAU who's good and who's not good, right,
Speaker 3: because they fall through the cracks. Plus there's that, you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of these schools get done with their recruiting
Speaker 3: and a lot of people. How many times you go
Speaker 3: to high school and you come back from summer before
Speaker 3: senior year and some dudes gained forty pounds in four inches.
Speaker 1: One of the guys drafted drafted last night. He grew
Speaker 1: from five to six to like six eight within an
Speaker 1: eighteen month time and it was during the pandemic bingo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they they have that leap. Well, recruiting's already
Speaker 3: done for most of these schools, so they fall to
Speaker 3: a East co you know, we West coast whatever, YadA YadA,
Speaker 3: and then they get overlooked. But now with all those
Speaker 3: transfer yeah there are and with all this transfer, there's
Speaker 3: good and there's mostly bad to the transfer.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was just for effect. This guy, it's such
Speaker 1: an unheard of great story. Look, can you believe he's here.
Speaker 1: We didn't even know his name. Maybe they could sell
Speaker 1: it us that I've got to something that I think
Speaker 1: is similar that happened in the NFL. I want us
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts quickly if this is worse or
Speaker 1: the same. So Mark Sanchez, former NFL quarterback. He jumped
Speaker 1: to the broadcast booth recently is being as a color analyst,
Speaker 1: and when making a comment about a play that may
Speaker 1: need to be reviewed or a challenge, he said, well, hey,
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's throw it. Let's see what Let's see
Speaker 1: what Gene has to say. And he wasn't He was
Speaker 1: basically saying, we might have to have him give us
Speaker 1: an update. Wrong network. He worked for CBS.
Speaker 3: He referenced the rules analysts.
Speaker 2: That's a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think he was able to keep his job, but
Speaker 1: like one the other guy, like, imagine throwing it to
Speaker 1: him the rest of the season. You thought you thought
Speaker 1: you had.
Speaker 3: The You know, I feel I feel for him because
Speaker 3: every time someone talks about him, they do the butt
Speaker 3: butt fumble, and it's just like, dude, it was one
Speaker 3: play in a career.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also it was a bad look for broadcasters,
Speaker 1: who like, why do we even need people who you
Speaker 1: never played the game? Well, you didn't even know what
Speaker 1: neverk you worked for?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's hand it off Tony and right
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